Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-04
o peak,n "Dyipg Alexander Mstber

to peak" "Dying Alexander Mather,
what nave you u sn.?'' the Lord who
has taken care of ma fifty years, will BOT
cast me off now; glury 0a 10 CD and to
the Lamb! Amen, .iuen. amen, GmeG,"
"Dying John Powso3, after p eachHg the
Gospel So many years, what have you to
Ssy?" "My 1eath-brd is bed of roses"
dying DR.. Tn mas Scot, what have you
! to say?" "This is Heaven begun. ~
dying soldier in tn last war, what have
you TO say?" "Boys, am going TO the
front" dying telegraph operator on the
battlefield OF Virginia, w1at have you to
say?" "The wires are all laid. and the
poles are all up from tony PoinJ TO head
quarters" dying Paul, what have vuu
to W" 81 an now ready to De offered,
and the time Of my departure is 1t hand :;
have fought the good fight, l have
finished my course, l nave Kept the faith
o Death, whore Is tiny sting? o Grave,
where is thy victory? Thanks
be unto cd VINO givs,h US
the victory through cur Lord Jesus
Christ" On, my Lord, my God, what
delusion. Wnat Il glorious delusion.
SuDmerge roe with it, fill my eyes end
ears with it, put IL under my dying head
for q pill0w-tnis GalUsiOl-spread it
over me Tor canopy, pus 1t underneath
me for IN outspreadlns wing, roll 1t over
me
- OCEAN sURGES,
900 fathons deep Ga, if infdelity,
and # atheism, and if GnnlhllatIou are q
realty. AMI the Christian religion IS 3 de-
fusion, give me the de!usion!
The strong conclusion Of every man
and woman in the house is that Christian
ity producing such results cannot be q
deiuSion. a lie, cheat. swindle, an
Authorization, cannot launch such g
glory Of the centuries. Your logic and
your common sense convince YOU that
d bad cause cannot produce an lllustrious
result; ont of the womb of such mon
ster no such angel can be born There are
many in This house this morning, in the
galleries aud on the main fl or, who be-
gan, with thinking that the Caristian re-
ligion was stupid farce, who nave come
TO the conclusion that it is reality. Why
are you here to-day? Why did you sing
this song? Why did you bow your head
in the opening prayer? Why did you
bring your family with you? Why, when
| tell you of the ending of all trials in the
bosom of God, do there stand tears in
YOUR eyes-nOt tears of grisf, but tears of
Joy such as stand in the eyes of home sick
children far away at school when some
one talks to them about going home? Why
is it that you can be so calmly submissive
TO the death of your loved enc, about
whose departure you once were so angry
anG so rebelIiuus? There is something
the matter with yOu. All your friends
have found out there is a great change
And if some of you would give your expe-
rience, you would give ii
IN SCHOLARLY STYLE,
and Others giving your experience would
give 1t i'll broken style, but the one expe-
rience ,uld be just as good as the other.
Some Of you have read everything. You
are scientific and you are scholarly, anG
yet il | should ask you: 'What is The
most sensible thing you ever did?" you
would say: 1.-The most sensible thing
ever did was to give my heart to God"
But there may be others mere who have
not had early advantages, and if they
were asked to give their experience they
might rise and give such testimony as
the man gave in 3 prayer meeting when
he said: "On my way here tonight l met
q man WHO asked me where | was going.
| said Il am going to prayer meeting
He said, There are good many relig-
ions, and think the most of them are de
lusious; as to the Christian religion, that
is only rOtiOn-that is
A MERE NOTION,
the Christian religion l said to him:
Stranger, you see that tavern over
there?' yes lie said, Il see it, do
you see me?' yes, of course |
see you Now the time was, as
everybody in this town knows, that
if had quarter of dollar in my pocket |
could not pass that tavern without 60
ing in and getting drink: all the people |
Of Jefferson could not keep me out of |
tnat place; but God has changed my
heart, and the Lord Jesus Christ has de-
stroyed my thirst for strong drink, and
there is my whole weeks wages, and l |
have no temptation to go in there; and,
stranger, if this Is notion | want IL tell
you it is a mighty powerful notion: Is
notion that has put clothes on my chill
iren's backs, and it is notion thu has
put good food on our table, and It is
notion that has filed my mouth with
to God. And, strange, you
had better go along with me, you might
get religion, too; lots OF people are get
ing religion now"
Well, we will soon understand it all.
Your life and mine will soon be over. We
will soon come TO the last bar q the
nusi to the last act of the trage dy, to
he last page of the book-yea, to the last
inc and tt the last word, and to you and
o me it Kill either be midnoon or MD
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